Minor tweak with desktop/fontforge.appdata.xml

Move paragraph up since it is more important than the other in sequence.
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
more distcheck additions (skipped config.guess, config.sub for now)
Allow makefile to autogen gitignore in tango icon dir
Drop some unichar_t variant of widgets which are not used for >8yr, according to git blame and function caller graph
Allocate string dynamically instead of relying on char array in dialogs
Rework histogram dialog to use utf8 strings instead of unichar_t
u_sprintf() and friends now begone
osx: setting PYTHONHOME causes all hell to break loose.

If I don't touch that and
mv /opt/local /opt/local.real
then I can run python stuff from the bundle OK
Merge pull request #1169 from monkeyiq/2014/issues/1144p3

osx: setting PYTHONHOME causes all hell to break loose.
Merge pull request #1163 from JoesCat/master

switch 2nd and 3rd paragraph of desktop/fontforge.appdata.xml
Merge pull request #1168 from abelcheung/old-cruft-slimming

Old cruft slimming